Previous studies downloaded gene expression data from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) normal cervical tissues and cervical cancer tissues and applied bioinformatics analysis to show that the expression level of ECT2 mRNA in cervical cancer tissues was higher than that in normal cervical tissues based on GSE9750, GSE29570, and GSE52903 datasets (Sharma et al., 2012). Here, ECT2 is linked to cervical cancer.